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(No Model.) I

H. BOROHBRS 8v E. M. GHAMNBSS.

MEAT TENDERER.

Patented Dec. 21, 1886.

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HERMAN BORGHERS AND ELI M. CHAMNESS, OF INDIANAPOLIS, IFDIANA.

I MEAT-TENDERER.

. EFECIE'ICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,679, dated December 21, 1886.

I Application filed October 12, 1886. Serial No. 216,038. (No model.) I

To ,qtZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HERMAN BoRoHERs" and ELI M. CHAMNESS, of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Meat-Tenderers; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the device complete. Fig. 2 is avertical crosssection of the same, showing the manner of securing the parts together; and Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectionon line as :0, Fig. 2.

This invention relates to improvements in meat tenderers and cutters, and has especial reference to the manner of securing the points of the tenderer to the body of the device.

The invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A and B designate the two main parts of the tenderer, secured together as here inaft-er described.

The partA is in general form like a hatchet, only having an enlarged head, a, asshown, and made preferably squareor of other suitable contour. The part A is provided centrally with an eye, or opening, a, for the insertion of a handle, and its upper edge is formed into a cutting-bladeor chopper, a which may be used to separate the meat into suitable-sized pieces for cooking, or to out or break bone or gristle.

The part B is formed of a series of metallic toothed strips, b, and cast-metal body b. The body b has a fiat upper surface adapted to'fit against the surface of the head a, with which it corresponds in shape. The strips b are preferably of-steel, serrated on one edge to form the teeth b which resemble those of an ordinary saw, although other forms of teeth may be used, if desired.

The strips are nearly equal in length to the width of the body b, and are secured thereto low the bottom of the mold and protected by the sand. The heated mctal,when poured into the mold, will inclose the upper portion of the strips b, while the teeth b will stand out from the lower surface thereof. The strips b thus form substantially an integral portion of the body I). If desired, the upper edges of'the strips may be roughened to givc'them a firmer hold in the body b,- but this will seldom be necessary unless the tenderers are made unusually large. p

The part B, completed as described, is secured to the head a of part A by means of rivets O, which pass through corresponding perforations, c c, in the body b and head a.

If desired, the partB may be secured to part Aby means of screws instead of rivets, so that the parts A and B maybe separated to permit the head a to be used for pulverizing spices or other condiments. The manner of using this invention is obvious from the foregoing description.

By making the tenderer of two parts, A and B, as described, either part can be replaced when broken, and the expense of manufacturing them much reduced. I

We are aware that meat-tenderers have been made having their heads cast with a series of integral pyramidal projections or teeth; and we are also aware that it is not new to cast the metal of the tenderer-head around a number of rows of separate teeth or cutters, and we therefore do not make a claim to such constructions, broadly; but, I

Having described our invention, what we claim is- As an improved article of manufacture, a meat-tenderer consisting of the part A, having a cutting-blade, a eyed, for the recep tion of the handle, and enlarged flat head a, and the part B, consisting of the metal body b, cast with the serrated steel blades b,extending' unbrokenly across its outer surface, the

serrations of theblades forming the teeth of the tenderer, the body b being secured to the head a by rivets, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we affix our signatures inpresence of two witnesses.

HERMAN BOROHERS. ELI lVL-OHAMNESS.

Witnesses:

JAMES W. WANDs, J. S. Cruise. 

